Eucalyptus.) XLVIII. MYRTACE. 253 
length from under 3 to about 4 lines, the rim thin, the capsule deeply sunk, 
but sometimes the base of the style enge into long points to the valves 
protruding 2 the border of the 
Australia? Specimens in young ep p in fruit from the S. coast, R. Brown, 
appear to cht to this specie 
wW. gine Rive r, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 87 ; limestone hills near Free- 
mantle, cmm a. $31; ert, Gilbert, n . 263; Port Gregory, “Murchison and South Hutt 
rivers, Old, held D Sharks' m nd Dirk Hartog's Island, Miine, also in the colle cue - 
Baudin’ u's Expedition.—Different as the long and the short sid appear, there 
114. E. VOR Schau. in Pl, Preiss. i. 127. In the original form, 
à shrub or small tree with a smooth white bark ( ree Maxwell). - Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate-acuminate, under 3 in. long, thick, with fine 
oblique not close veins, often scarcely visible, the liter ici one at a dis- 
tance from the edge. Peduncles axillary or lateral, flattened or rarely terete, 
each with a dense umbel of 6 to 12 flowers, Cal -tube narrow, 23 to nearly 
3 lines long, tapering into a short thick or flattened pedicel. Operenlum 
conical, acuminate, at least twice as long as Me calyx-tube. Stamens 3 to 
rice, the rim narrow, the capsule considerably sunk, the points of the 
valves rarely protrudin ng. 
` “Australia. Kin ng George's Sound and adjoining distriets to Swan River and 
$4 "ard to Cape Riche, Preiss, n. 232, 234, 245, 247; Drummond, 2nd Coll. m. $1 and 
Sé Kai n, te other: 
H Aloia. us larger, more prominently veined.—Murchison and South 
a rivers, a Fen tree with a smooth black bark, Oldfield. 
M. ngustifolia, Leavy. ^n linear or linear-lanceolate. — E. zanthonema, Turez. in Bull. 
Stn D i 163; W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 67, 5th Coll. n. 187; S. side 
d 
Ope reulum rather shorter and the fruit less en, ted at the orifi not deel 
wise from th n á " 
: 
The species, Ee i in the narrow-leaved forms, has much ipe A e on the one 
fo T on the other to Z. spat ahai atas but is fidir distin sigue ries the 
wol va the ch from the latter by the stamens and the acuminate oper 
SUBSERIES VIIT, CorymBos#.— Flowers usually large, the umbels (or 
Hy rarely heads) all in a terminal corymbose panicle or rarely a a few of the 
cha Ones axillary. Fruit often large, more or less urceolate, the capsule 
ply sunk. Seeds u usually ead is with acute edges, often more or less 
vm in a variously-shaped wi 
( E 5. E. perf oliata, R. PE Herb. A large shrub of 10 ft. or more 
fe Leaves 8 opposite, connate, 6 to 8 in. long and 3 to 4 in. 
Toad, Very obtuse, glaucous with numerou s parallel transverse veins. Flowers 
Be sessile in heads of 4 to 6, on terete peduncles forming a corymbose 
ininal panicle, Calyx-tube thick, broadly turbinate, smooth or nearly en 
Tto 8 ag long and as much in diameter. Opereulum not seen: ` Stamen 
